Star Trek and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen screenwriters Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci talked briefly to ComingSoon.net about adapting the graphic novel Cowboys & Aliens with director Jon Favreau and Robert Downey Jr. in the lead:

On collaborating on their next film, “Cowboys & Aliens,” with director Jon Favreau:

Kurtzman: It’s the greatest.

Orci: We just started and we’re getting along really well. We actually sent ourselves back to school and we’re watching Westerns together, analyzing them, and just kind of getting into it.

Kurtzman: Yeah, we had a lot of these Westerns in our heads but Jon is an incredible fountain of Western knowledge.

Orci: “Star Trek” was pitched originally as a space Western anyway. So “Star Trek” was a nice lead up to this project.

Kurtzman: I think also that Jon comes from a very similar emotional place. Because he’s an actor and he knows what plays and what doesn’t play very quickly. We’re having an unbelievably good time working with him on that.